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  1. List Political Parties of Alternate Countries

    This is P H R E S H Am I meme-texting right? Also trying to find a list of presidents / leaders in the list thread but am not finding anything, did you post a companion list??

  2. TLIAW: Great Power Empire: China 1865

    Loving this TLIAW so far - have just been reading a lot about the Taiping rebellion by coincidence so a lot more of the references haven't been lost that might otherwise have been. Seems like Yung Wing is bound to end up in government in most ATLs in this era - I think I recall he was Taiping PM...

  3. "A Rare Executive Ability" or What's the Matter With Kansas

    So, governor of Kansas J.R. Brinkley in 1930 leads to an attempted military coup twelve years later?! The references to blue armbands suggests some sort of fascist group - and that mention to "Socres" - Socialist Resistance? Social Credit? And what's the M1935 they are referencing and why do...

  4. Most irritating post-1900 cliches?

    This is more of a meta-cliche than one regarding events in TLs - but any time I see a timeline with excessive usage of stock photos / Google Image results and NEWSPAPER HEADLINES my eyes tend to glaze over until I've closed the page...

  5. WI Manchukuo established in the 1920s not 1930s

    I don't have access to the source itself as I am at work, but I recall reading some western news articles from the period that mentioned that, since the ideological difference between Jiang and Zhang was minimal following Jiang's anticommunist turn, there was no reason why the two could not come...

  6. WI Manchukuo established in the 1920s not 1930s

    I've been thinking a bit about this as well. So if Japanese action prevented Zhang Xueliang from consolidating power in Manchuria, presumably one of his pro-Japanese lieutenants would take over the three northeastern provinces - someone like Yang Yuting or Chang Yinhuai - and maintain some sort...

  7. The Cincinnatus of the West

    Somehow missed the fact that Arnold died in a duel. My bad. :o And I thought you were hinting at Lee being a figurehead, plus from what little I know about Gates he seems like the kind of person who would want to rule himself, but failing that, would want someone ahead of him to take the fall...

  8. The Cincinnatus of the West

    Interesting group of behind-the-scenes leaders. Gates, Arnold, and Conway having power via a figurehead doesn't bode well. Do the different developments in the late 1770s mean that James Wilkinson still is associated with Gates ITTL? if Wilkinson is let anywhere near power I fear for the Union...

  9. WI: The British empire federates in the 1890s

    Why not Australia, then? It's arguable that Canada wouldn't work out, considering the probably-adverse reaction of the US. But purely from a population POV (going off of info found on populstat.info for UK, Aus, and NZ for 1900), the territories in Oceania had a combined 12% of the population of...

  10. TLIAD: America of 2016 or John Kerry's Third Term

    You know you've botched your timeline when the people who made the "classic" TLIADs (Meadow and Lord R) are making snide comments in your thread. Unless US David is indeed making a postmodern / deconstructionist work in which the traditional totalitarian structure, which calls for a single...

  11. Map Thread XII

    With pleasure! Among the various timelines that I am never going to get around to writing is a Taiping victory TL (though with the Hong family still at the helm and Shi Dakai at best a Yuan Shikai figure), so I've got a bunch of notes, sources, etc. lying around and I figure yours is a good...

  12. List alternate PMs or Presidents

    My first thought on seeing this list is that it was ASB, if only because Blaine lived past 1893...

  13. The Dakai Dynasty: Rise of the Heavenly Kingdom

    I'm curious why Mongolia rebelled against the Qing dynasty in TTL - from what I've read, there weren't any uprisings in the same period, and indeed several of the generals fighting against the Taiping and Nian rebels were Mongolian nobility - Senggelinqin, Jirhangga, etc. Considering that they...

  14. Map Thread XII

    In OTL Du Wenxiu was referred to as Sultan by some, but he established a government that was a mix of Yunnan / Hui Muslim officers and Han Chinese bureaucrats, and was officially tolerant of non-Muslim groups in Yunnan- including the various minorities in the province. Since this is all OTL...

  15. Icarus Rising

    Just a small thing that has been bugging me as I read the more recent China updates (still haven't finished to comment on them but I will try to finish quickly), but Ta-ching is not a surname that would be used in China or Taiwan. While there are some examples of two-syllable surnames (Ouyang...

  16. The Dakai Dynasty: Rise of the Heavenly Kingdom

    It looks like Qinwang (亲王) is the translation of prince, so Gong Qinwang is the Prince of Gong. In this case, he was also known as Yixin, but I think Prince Gong is an fine translation. FWIW his name in modern Chinese style seems like it would be Aixin Jueluo Yixin, which is long and unwieldy...

  17. A New Great Wall - Chinese WW2 TL

    So if Guo Songling is still alive until the 1930s, this implies that the POD must be before the Anti-Fengtian War, because Guo clearly hasn't betrayed Zhang in TTL. Looking at Zhang Xueliang's bio, looks like he went to Japan in 1921 in OTL, so might the POD be that he goes to study in Germany...

  18. Map Thread X

    ... James Hydroxide? I have to ask. :p

  19. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    Back in the day I was sketching out some ideas for a story set in China in the Protect and Survive universe ... but I've been re-reading this TL's Chinese excerpts and seems like you've already done it before me :eek: Anyway, made my day to see there was a new update. Things can always get...

  20. DBWI: Hagia Sophia bombed by Plirite terrorists!

    OOC: Most posters in this thread have been here longer than you and have no idea what you are talking about ... is this a reference to "Radical_neutral" or whatever his name was?
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